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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
It seems to me, that if a file is DRM'ed and the buyer actually pays for a book, the location of the buyer should be irrelevant. So what is in it for the publisher to go to the trouble and expense of applying geographic restrictions?
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To "protect" their market. If you have the UK publishing rights to a book, you want people in the UK to buy your edition from a UK bookstore, not a cheaper US edition, published by a different publisher, from an American bookstore. You therefore want the American bookstore not to sell to a UK customer.